Athletic Communications
CONTACT INFORMATION Address.................................. Athletic Communications Middle Tennessee 1500 Greenland Drive Murfreesboro, TN 37132 Athletic Communications Phone.....(615) 898-2968 Athletic Communications Fax...........(615) 898-5626 Press Row Phone................................(615) 898-2807 Basketball Office Phone....................(615) 898-2916 Ticket Office Phone..(615) 898-2103 or 1-888-YES-MTSU Athletic Department Phone............ (615)-898-2450 Twitter.................................................... @MTAthletics Instagram.................................................. MTAthletics Facebook......................................Blue Raider Athletics
Associate AD/Athletic Communications Mark Owens (Virginia Tech, 1989)
Office: (615) 898-5057 Cell: (615) 631-9520 Twitter: @MarkOwens5 E-mail: owens@goblueraiders.com
Director of Internet Services Bradley Lambert (Middle Tennessee, 2004) Office: (615) 494-8653 Cell: (865) 603-7651 E-mail: blambert@goblueraiders.com
MARK OWENS
Associate AD/Communications Football, Men’s Golf
BRADLEY LAMBERT
Director of Internet Services
RUSSELL LUNA
Assistant Director WBB, Baseball, Women’s Tennis
KATIE PARKER
Assistant Director MBB, Soccer, Women’s Golf
NATHAN WALLACH Media Specialist
DIRECTIONS TO MURPHY CENTER
From Nashville International Airport: Enter Briley Parkway continuing south to the Interstate 24 junction. Take I-24 East to Exit 76; turn left and follow Medical Center Parkway to Memorial Boulevard. Go left on Memorial to Clark Boulevard. Turn right on Clark Boulevard (at BP station). Follow Clark Blvd. (which becomes Middle Tennessee Boulevard) to intersection at Greenland Drive. Turn left on Greenland Drive. Murphy Center is located just to the right. From Nashville: From I-24 East, take Exit 76; turn left and follow Medical Center Parkway to Memorial Boulevard. Go left on Memorial to Clark Boulevard. Turn right on Clark Boulevard (at BP station). Follow Clark Blvd. (which becomes Middle Tennessee Boulevard) to intersection at Greenland Drive. Turn left on Greenland Drive. Murphy Center is located just to the right. From Chattanooga: Take I-24 West to Exit 81; follow U.S. Highway 231 North to Middle Tennessee Boulevard to intersection at Greenland Drive. Turn right onto Greenland Drive. The Greenland Drive parking lot is located to the right. From Knoxville: Take Interstate 40 West to Lebanon and exit onto U.S. Highway 231 South and follow approximately 25 miles to
Assistant Director Clark Boulevard in Murfreesboro; turn left on Clark Boulevard. Follow Clark Blvd. (which becomes Middle Tennessee Boulevard) to Katie Parker (Geogia College & State University, 2008) intersection at Greenland Drive. Turn left on Greenland Drive. Murphy Center is located just to the right.
Office: (615) 904-8115 Cell: (770) 601-1890 Twitter: @KParker85 E-mail: parker@goblueraiders.com
Assistant Director (WBB Contact) Russell Luna (Middle Tennessee, 2009)
Office: (615) 898-5270 Cell: (615)900-7837 Twitter: @RDLuna E-mail: luna@goblueraiders.com
Intern (Secondary WBB Contact) Miles McQuiggan (Quinnipiac, 2012)
Office: (615) 904-8209 Cell: (401) 622-2192 Twitter: MT_MilesMcQ E-mail: mcquiggan@goblueraiders.com
Intern Brent Beerends (William Penn, 2011)
Office: (615) 898-2378 Cell: (641) 780-7005 Twitter: @BeerendsBO E-mail: beerends@goblueraiders.com
Media Specialist Nathan Wallach (Middle Tennessee, 2009) Office: (615) 904-8115 Cell: (615) 403-6424 E-mail: wallach@goblueraiders.com
From Birmingham, AL: Take I-65 North to Highway 96 East Franklin (TN) exit. Follow Highway 96 East to Murfreesboro. Continue east on 96 until Clark Boulevard intersection; turn right on Clark Blvd. (which becomes Middle Tennessee Boulevard) to intersection at Greenland Drive. Turn left on Greenland Drive. Murphy Center ia located just to the right.
BLUE RAIDER NETWORK
Middle Tennessee’s excellent women’s basketball radio coverage took a significant stride in 2007-08 and will continue this season, with the flagship station for the Blue Raiders on WMOT 89.5 FM in Murfreesboro. The 100,000-watt station reaches beyond Bowling Green, Ky., to the north, Cookeville, Tenn., to the east, the Tennessee River to the west and to Fayetteville, Tenn., in the south. All Blue Raider women’s basketball games may also be heard on the Internet at GoBlueRaiders.com. Video streaming has been added for all Middle Tennessee home games at GoBlueRaiders.com. Dick Palmer begins his 32nd season of calling the play-by-play action for Middle Tennessee basketball and his seventh as the lead announcer for the women’s basketball team. Palmer, a 1960 graduate of Middle Tennessee, has been broadcasting sporting events for the past 50 years. Palmer is the brother of current team Chaplin B. E. Palmer. From 1971 until his return to Murfreesboro, he was the voice of the Memphis Blues Class AA baseball team, the Memphis Pros (later the Tams) in the American Basketball Association and the Memphis Grizzlies in the World Football League. Earlier, he worked in Jackson, Tenn., for nine years, broadcasting a wide range of high school sports and Union University’s basketball games. Palmer, who co-hosted the first sports call-in show in Nashville in the mid1970s, was the studio host for Vol Network football broadcasts for five years and has called the TSSAA Basketball State Tournament on the Tennessee Sports Radio Network every year since 1982. He has also served as a Little League baseball coach for over 40 years and in many other capacities in the Optimist
Dick Palmer and Duane Hickey will call the action of Blue Raider women’s basketball for the 2013-14 season.
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